This instrument is the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Assessment Framework Amendment (Combining impact and recognition of abuse payment) Declaration 2024.

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under section 32 of the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018.

4 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Assessment Framework 2018

Subsection 5(1)

Omit the table, and substitute:

Amount of redress payment
	Column 1 Kind of sexual abuse of the person	Column 2 Recognition of sexual abuse and its impact	Column 3 Recognition of related non‑sexual abuse	Column 4 Recognition person was institutionally vulnerable	Column 5 Recognition of extreme circumstances of sexual abuse
1	Penetrative abuse	$90,000	$5,000	$5,000	$50,000
2	Contact abuse	$40,000	$5,000	$5,000	Nil
3	Exposure abuse	$10,000	$5,000	$5,000	Nil

Subsection 5(2)

Omit, and substitute:

(2) Total:

(a) the amount in column 2 of the item of the table relevant to the sexual abuse of the person; and

(c) if there was non‑sexual abuse of the person that was related to the sexual abuse—the amount in column 3 of that item; and

(d) if the person was institutionally vulnerable—the amount in column 4 of that item; and

(e) if the sexual abuse occurred in extreme circumstances—the amount (if any) in column 5 of the item.